Podcast | Karen Barno

Reach Your Full Potential and Success will be Yours. Welcome to #73 Next Level Confidence Podcast These two words could determine your success or failure. What? Self-Belief. It’s how you perceive yourself and the interconnected world around you. Self-belief is the mindset that no matter what happens, you will prevail.  I had a strong belief from childhood that I would prevail. Through t...

Be Ready to Take Action Do you want to make a change in your life, but find yourself hesitant and unsure of what steps to take? Learn how to recognize the signs when an opportunity presents itself. Opportunity will knock on your door once. If you choose not to open the door or pass thinking it will return, it will not. Opportunity sometimes knocks so softly you hear it as a whisper or see it in a...

Words have power. Text Words have power. Words spoken whether out loud or to yourself have power. The spoken voice has an energy, a vibration, that moves into the universe. This vibration signals the Universe on what to deliver to people. Positive vibration is like a charge on a battery. Positive gives positive back and negative gives negative. It’s a law of nature and therefore will play out the...

Take Back Your Personal Power Stop blaming others for your life. Your failures or foibles. Taking back your personal power starts with accepting you. Understanding who you are deep with, at your soul’s level. Frequent visits to your past, evaluating and trying to understand, just keep you stuck there. Keeps you looking backward instead of forward. Sometimes the reasons for the past are not for peo...

Know Thyself Who am I, Now? Take time to know whyself. Setting down to do my yearly goal setting January 3 as I do every year. The first question is ask is who am I. I learned well rather admitted to myself I hate sharing personal info. I will share about trauma, overcoming obstacles, and raging failures but there are other areas that will not. In my day job, I do extremely well. But in my side hu...

Your Burning Desire! It is very hard to get up at 4:30 am to exercise, work on your book, coach an overseas client or just start your day. If you don’t know your reason for accomplishing all you want to accomplish it most likely will not happen. It’s so important to know what your fall on the sword moment is. The place your mind goes to motivate you when you are exhausted, hungry and just done wit...

Will Come Back at You Judging other people’s looks, actions, money, how they talk, and weight is a human issue. No other animal on the planet judges others like humans. Unfortunately, too many were judged as children and carried that forward.   There is one negative, actually, a very negative outcome from judging others harshly. What you see in others that you dislike is contained within...

Find Yourself playing a smaller game? There are too many people who fear being seen. This usually developed from highly critical parents or someone in your life as a child. It didn’t matter what you did it was either never good enough or you would never be a success as ??????. So you decided, why try or you bought into never being successful enough, when you get to that point, you quit. Stop...

ReAwaken Your Powerful Self Text Here (Paragraph) Confidence is a moving target. One day you are the most confident woman you know and the next day you’re hiding. You just don’t know how to flip the switch to be confident in all areas of your life. There are three steps that if you take them and follow the map you will learn how to unlock your confidence in 5 seconds. The first step is...

Next Level Up CEO Nas Echeverria is a strategy coach who helps women find the confidence to uplevel their business. She teaches how to develop a framework for their program. Nas spent over 18 years as a business owner. In her earlier years she checked all the boxes: she received good grades in high school, done. Not a great student she went to college. Worked her way through and in true Nas fashio...

Stop looking backwards Confidence trapped is a far too common phenomenon. Way too many people get stuck in a moment when their life is shining bright. Score the winning touchdown. Or the winning basket. Conversely, just surviving. Within a short period of waking up, your mind goes to a negative moment in your life. A trauma, bad break up, losing a loved one during COVID. Each month, week, day, may...

Your Story of Transformation Joseph Campbell, while studying Greek mythology, found a constant theme. An overarching theme that makes the story more compelling.  Once you learn the steps, it can make reading a book or watching a movie challenge. Why? You will understand the framework of the steps on the journey. Happy Potter, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings were masters at employing thi...

From a Fearless Novice I learned so many lessons podcasting it would take forever to review. I was a novice podcaster. Filler with confidence, but that was it.  I have no idea how any of it worked, but I listened to many podcasts and stayed at a Holiday Inn.  Seriously one of my most favorite sayings is ‘How hard can it be?’ That also gets me in trouble sometimes. Yet, I do usually...

The Universe Reacts We hear it all the time. People saying What you think about you will bring about. And that is a universal fact. A lesser-known, but I think more impactful, are the words put into action will deliver a reaction. What you say aloud is alerting the Universe that you are in need, and it must jump into action. And as you may know when you say something like I don’t want to be late....

Making real change within When people transform their lives it must involves shadow work at some point in time. Until people get to the root of the issue holding them back makes it is very hard to heal. These Shadows are repressed parts of your personality that others rejected. This rejection settled in your Soul and has remained hidden until you made the decision to seek it out. Contained within...

Choose to Own Your Power! It has always been your choice. You choose what you desire they say. Ask the Universe, visualize it happening, stay positive, and it will appear.  When I first heard this, I thought it was a bunch of BS. Who would choose any form of trauma in their life? Choose to be poor, abuse, left alone to fend for themselves, discarded, live in a war-torn country where women are...

Her calling was Greater than she knew. I think everyone on this planet know the Simone Bile sat out most of the Olympics with mental health issues. As the Goat in the world of Gymnastics she could have remained silence, but she chose not to.  Courageous decision . She could have muscled through to make everyone happy.  Instead, she used her large platform to discuss mental health issues....

Blue Rose System for Shadow Work How often do you notice the confidence person FIRST? I think everyone notices confident people first and are drawn to them. Why? People they enter a room. Not walk into a room but enter with style. People walk over to them for conversation not the opposite way. It seems like they attract everything and anything into their life. Why, oh why are they so lucky? Trust...

Spent years Trying to answer this Question. I have spent years trying to understand my visceral reaction to religion. I was 100% there with a higher power, but organized religion was a struggle. I have no idea why. When to church each Sunday, Sunday school, communion, confirmation, etc., but still was repelled by it. I spent my life trying to understand the various religions and Gods of those reli...

Successful people and the G.O.O.D. Method How you ever wondered how two brothers or sisters from the same family are no equals in say sports? Serena vs Venus. Stephen Curry or Seth Curry? Let’s take Stephen and Seth Curry. They are both professional I think they are close to the same size and body type. Yet one, Stephen, is a multiple World Champion and future Hall of Famer and can shoot from anyw...

Take Charge. You are the co-creator of your life. You and God. Together you bring into your life all you think you deserve. When I first heard this, I thought no way. I desire more, I dream of more, I visualize more, so I could not have co-created this. I looked around. My kitchen is over 20 years old, Car older but looks excellent, and I love my job. Then I thought, wait, Karen, would you still l...

What is Your Truth ? Everyone has Shadows. Shadows are blurry blocks that hold them back from who they were born to be. These are the repressed pieces of our soul that others didn’t accept back when you were 4, 5, 10, 15 etc. You didn’t have the toolkit to disregard what they said you instead internalized the comments. Then, they become real. A part of who you are, right or wrong. When...

Women of a certain age were strongly encouraged to be seen and not heard. Make a scene was out of the question. They married the ‘right’ guy, had children, and walked through life like a Zombie. They were climbing the corporate ladder attempting to find their place.  Some we lucky to meet a mentor, but most had to find their way. They turned 50 and realized they had much to bring to the table...